Monday, April 22, 2013
Cops say Justice man leaned in and bit off piece of victim's ear in domestic dispute.
A 28-year-old Justice man bit a piece of another man’s ear off during a domestic dispute, authorities said. Richard Vody of the 7800 block of Garden Lane, was charged with home invasion, aggravated battery and domestic battery. Vody is currently out of jail on a $250,000 bond. Cook County Sheriff’s Police received a call about 8:45 a.m. Friday for a domestic battery in the 200 block of Walnut in unincorporated Justice. Officers said that Vody was found at the scene, along with the 26-year-old victim from Westchester, and the victim’s girlfriend, who lived at the residence. Authorities said all three knew each other. Vody forced his way into the residence. After arguing with the victim, Vody leaned into the victim and bit off about half of …
Monday, April 8, 2013
Woman refused to unlock her doors, ran over cop and got away during drug arrest, police said.
An arrest warrant was obtained for a former resident that eluded arrest during a pre-arranged cocaine sting, reports said. Oak Lawn police learned from a “confidential source” that Brittany Alyssa Rotto, 23, of the 700 block of Schoolgate Road, in New Lenox, had allegedly called to ask if he wanted to purchase two eight-balls of cocaine. Sign up for the Oak Lawn Patch newsletter and follow us on Facebook. Detectives arranged a sale between the confidential source and Rotto in the McDonald’s parking lot at 91st Street and Cicero Avenue. Police set up surveillance and at 9:40 p.m. March 17, Rotto’s gray Mazda entered the parking lot, reports said. Rotto called the confidential source and told him she didn’t want to do the deal at McDonald’s…
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W 93rd St & S Cicero Ave, Oak Lawn, IL
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W 91st St & S Cicero Ave, Oak Lawn, IL
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9000 S 49th Ct, Oak Lawn, IL
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Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Domestic disturbance leads to felony charges for 24-year-old woman who said she felt threatened; woman's mother also picked up on outstanding warrant, police say.
A 24-year-old woman was charged with aggravated battery of a senior citizen and her 43-year-old mom arrested on an outstanding warrant following a domestic disturbance, reports said. Sign up for Oak Lawn Patch breaking news alerts. Oak Lawn police responded to a report of a domestic situation in the 8800 block of South Nashville Avenue shortly before noon on Jan. 25. When they arrived, a woman identified as Amanda R. Carnahan, of Chicago, allegedly told police nothing happened and that she was getting ready to leave. Another woman had fled the scene before officers had the chance to interview her, reports said. Carnahan, her twin sister, and her mother had been staying with the mom’s 60-year-old boyfriend who lived at the address with own …
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8800 Nashville Ave, Oak Lawn, IL
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Monday, December 17, 2012
A Chicago Ridge man accused of stabbing his brothers-in-law outside of the Christ Hospital emergency department was arrested in Michigan after a day on the lam, police said. Watch the video of police processing the scene.
The man wanted in a double-stabbing outside the Advocate Christ Medical Center emergency department was arrested in Dearborn, Mich. on Sunday evening, Oak Lawn Police said. Sign up for Oak Lawn Patch breaking news alerts. Kamal Yasin, 32, is accused of stabbing both of his brother-in-laws in a parking lot near the hospital emergency department entrance at 94th Street and Kilbourn Avenue. Oak Lawn police responded to fight between multiple people in the parking lot around 11:36 p.m. Saturday. According to a witness who did not want his name used, it appeared that a man was beating one of the injured men with a stick. Several women were also yelling at the men, the witness said. A nurse who was standing outside the hospital ran to help one …
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W 94th St & S Kilbourn Ave, Oak Lawn, IL
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Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Also, a man is charged with disorderly conduct after police find him allegedly hiding in restroom.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27 A 29-year-old man told police he clubbed a would-be intruder with a landscaping brick and chased the intruder off his property around 3:42 a.m. Police responded to a battery in progress on the 10800 block of South Lockwood Avenue. Patch rounds up regional crime on the Crime 'n Shame Facebook Park. According to the report, the man was in the basement getting ready for bed when he heard the storm door rattle. The man came upstairs calling out to his mother. He went to the back door where he saw a man standing on the other side of the door. Police said both men engaged in struggled, when the victim claimed he picked up a landscaping brick and hit the would-be intruder in the head with it. The man claimed he continued to …
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Police said woman got upset because neighbor "started doing laundry too early in the morning."
A squabble in a laundry room led to felony charges filed against a woman accused of grabbing and throwing wet laundry at her 88-year-old neighbor. Oak Lawn police were called to the apartment building in the 10400 block of South Mansfield Avenue around 7:30 a.m. Aug. 9. Sign up for the Oak Lawn Patch newsletter and breaking news alerts. According to the report, the 88-year-old woman had started her wash at her scheduled time of 6 a.m. When she returned to the laundry room, she found her neighbor, Nijole Rackausiene, 58, shutting off the washing machine with her unfinished laundry still in it. Rackausiene began yelling it was 6 a.m. and that the woman had woken her by starting the machine, police said. The elderly woman pointed to a sign on…
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10400 Mansfield Ave, Oak Lawn, IL
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Thursday, July 26, 2012
Former Village of Oak Lawn public works employee Michael T. Kelly, 55, pleads guilty to aggravated battery in the August 2011 attack on a 14-year-old girl, and is sentenced to two years’ probation and anger management classes.
A Cook County judge sentenced Michael T. Kelly, 55, who was accused of choking and beating a 14-year-old girl last summer, to two years probation and anger management classes after Kelly pleaded guilty to aggravated battery on Thursday. Sign up to get Oak Lawn Patch breaking news alerts. Kelly, a retired Village of Oak Lawn public works employee, appeared in Judge John J. Hynes' Bridgeview courtroom wearing a blue shirt and gray slacks next to his attorney, Ed Barron. Prosecutors reviewed details of the Aug. 29, 2011 incident, where Oak Lawn police say Kelly rammed his bike into the 14-year-old girl, and then grabbed her off her own bike in a chokehold. Kelly held the girl down on the ground in a headlock and punched her in the head …
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Woman charged with felony aggravated battery after she spits at cop; police forced to get out spit hood, reports say.
A woman picked up on an outstanding warrant from Advocate Christ Medical Center was charged with aggravated battery against an Oak Lawn police officer on June 17. Tiffany Nicole Miller, 20, of the 7000 block of West 87th St. was held at the hospital for police when it was discovered that there was a warrant out for her arrest, reports said. A police officer went to pick her up after she was discharged at 1:35 a.m. After she was put into the back of the partol car, Miller began yelling and swearing at the officer, police said. According to reports, Miller said: “f--- you, mother------. I’m glad us gypsies steal money from your old people.” When the officer told Miller to be quiet, police said she spit at the back of his head. The officer …
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4799 W 95th St, Oak Lawn, IL
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Thursday, September 15, 2011
Michael T. Kelly, charged with aggravated battery after police said he attacked a 14-year-old girl, worked for the Village of Oak Lawn for over 30 years.
The man accused of attacking a child last month is a retired employee of the Village of Oak Lawn. Michael T. Kelly, 54, was charged with two felony counts of aggravated battery after police said he rammed his bike into a 14-year-old girl, then choked and pummeled her until other nearby adults ran to her rescue on Aug. 29. Oak Lawn police reports reported the girl’s age as 12, but Cook County court records indicate the girl is 14. Kelly worked for the village for over 30 years until he retired five or six years ago. His former co-workers are shocked he would be accused of attacking a child. “He was a great guy,” Steve Barrett said, public works director for the village. “We don’t know what happened.” Kelly worked in the village’s …
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Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Bike-riding Oak Lawn man, 54, is charged with two felony counts of aggravated battery after knocking girl off her bike and attacking her, police say.
Citizens came to the aid of a 12-year-old girl who witnesses said was attacked, punched and choked near the corner of 93rd Street and 69th Avenue in Oak Lawn on Aug. 29, according to a police report. Michael T. Kelly, 54, of the 9400 block of South Nordica Avenue, was charged with two felony counts of aggravated battery. Oak Lawn police said Kelly intentionally crashed his bike into the 12-year-old girl, then punched and choked her. A woman passing by the scene told police she saw the girl and her bike fall to the ground and saw a man standing over the girl when the woman passed the corner around 6:40 p.m. The woman said she “felt like something was wrong” and drove her car back for a closer look, police reports said. Neighbors who came to…
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W 93rd St & S 69th Ave, Oak Lawn, IL
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Pattyann Fetta
11:23 am on Tuesday, April 30, 2013
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